Elder Realms: A LitRPG Adventure (Path of Celestial Ascension Book 3) by David J. VanBergen Jr. & K. L. Reinhart

Author:David J. VanBergen Jr. & K. L. Reinhart [VanBergen, David J. Jr. & Reinhart, K. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2024-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

Esther and Sesuuk IV

“Are you sure you can’t take them? If I understand how this crazy thing works, then you must be, like, a level twenty-something-or-another, right?” Esther hissed at the prophet as she trudged alongside him over the golden sands.

Their captors had taken them out of the deep deserts—so there was that at least, Esther thought—and into what appeared to be rocky scrubland in the foothills. Stone crags rose on either side of them, and the ground had gone from a dry orange to white, brown, and even green.

There were short grasses, desiccated bushes, and dwarf trees. More boulders than Esther could conceivably count lay through the gorges and riverbeds they walked through.

Sesuuk bristled as he stalked beside her. Their guards trudged around them and were mostly silent, save for occasional hissed word or hand gesture that Esther caught Sesuuk watching intently. These snake-people didn’t seem to want to waste any energy as they marched through the burning desert. The land was still dry, but at least it wasn’t the desert.

“I am not going to tell you my level, and you would be wise to refrain from asking!” he rebuked her.

“Why? It’s not like it’s a secret, is it? This whole celestial scam is all about levels and achievements and⁠—”

“Silence!” Sesuuk quickly turned to grab her elbow with one of his bound hands. “You would do well to not remind people of your status, my girl!” Sesuuk murmured, and Esther felt a jolt of fear run down her back like ice water.

Oh, yeah.

She was supposed to have something called a ‘celestial inventory’ that appeared on her inner vision and updated her about experience, but it only seemed to work sporadically. Sure, she got experience upgrades when she managed to defeat a monster, but it didn’t mean anything since she couldn’t see what she was supposed to have—like levels, statistics, skills, or even an Ascension Path!

She tried to see if maybe it worked better in a different realm.

[CELESTIAL ENGINE ERROR!]

No luck.

She figured it was because of her time incarcerated in that Qlippothic Realm. She still had no idea what Kano or his Asai master had done to her, only that she was different than everyone else now. She could pour green fire out of her hands, which was seemingly not done in this new world. It was, seemingly, just too different from the magic that others—like her brother and his friends—used.

She knew that her status, or lack thereof, freaked people out as well.

Just like Blackwood wants to imprison or kill me, don’t they? She felt a pang of regret at that. She couldn’t control her powers. She had no idea what she was doing or how she was doing it.

Not that it mattered.

Sesuuk cleared his throat and checked that their guards weren’t paying them any extra attention. He continued, “There are twenty-four of them. As impressive as your or my skills are, I could not promise that one of us wouldn’t be seriously injured… And sometimes, you will learn that it pays off to be underestimated by your enemy.

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